NewDawn

Full Name: NewDawn Short Name: ND Public IRC Channel: #newdawn Alliance motto: Soaring Where Angels Fear To Fly Current High Council: Spritfire, Grog, BA, damo8, Catwoman http://members.lycos.co.uk/elcura/Planetarion/ndbanner_small.jpg

NewDawn has played every round of Planetarion and has often been represented in top blocks and alliance rankings. It was founded in round 1 by Sith and Stez. New Dawn's philosophy is "fun first" and they play the game with that idea first and foremost in their sights. This has contributed to a strong and active community.

NewDawn is one of the oldest of all the alliances, dating from Round 1. Many members from the very early days of NewDawn still remain. Most history from the early rounds included Tsunde, DigitalZero and ColCarp as High Council members.

In PaX, NewDawn was able to step up, finishing third in Round 12, allied to the winners 1up. After a poor showing in the first half of Round 13, NewDawn merged with SiN to form SiNND who finished fifth.

After the severe beating of Round 13, the loss of many members to 1up, SiN joining Hydra and G-II de-merging it looked like NewDawn would collapse. However, the loyal core and several new recruits made a strong start with Gate and Flying_So-Low running the show. The_Fish and ReligFree later joined the HC team as Gate burned out. NewDawn first engaged the similarly sized Reunion in a rank war before swelling in size by absorbing members from the collapsed InSomnia, Hydra and Wolfpack. At the end of the round, NewDawn were crushed by 1up and their allies Reunion, finishing second.

NewDawn went into Round 15 with yet another HC change; Grog, h3ll, and Amon joining Flying_So-Low as HC. Grog's political maneuvring let NewDawn reach the top spot, but eXilition, helped by other alliances such as Subh and Vengeance were able to obliterate NewDawn's lead. Again, ND finished second.

In Round 16 a new council was set up, constisting out of cura, BA, Paddy and JDD. Grog took the BG DLR out of tag for the round but despite this loss, NewDawn were still able to compete. 1up defeated Subh early in the round, but NewDawn joined Subh's side and, frustrated by the dominance of XP, 1up began to weaken. The outcome of the war was never decided as Ascendancy tagged up and took an easy XP win leading to NewDawn surrendering the fight for first, eventually finishing 7th after tidying up its ranks.

Round 17 saw NewDawn ally itself with InSomnia early on to engage the leaders Omen. Indecisive leadership and the failure to prosecute a proper war on behalf of both NewDawn and InSomnia allowed the conflict to become bitter and drag on with no clear resolution. 1up hid a huge amount of score and by the time they tagged up, petty arguments between Omen and NewDawn/InSomnia allowed them to stroll to a victory.

NewDawn started Round 21 with only two HC, namely Barrow and cura. After losing quite a few members to Conspiracy and WolfPack, NewDawn didn't compete for the #1 position and instead aimed to rebuild for the future.

This rebuilding effort was successful as NewDawn won Round 24 and Round 25, in both cases narrowly beating Urwins and Conspiracy.